Last minute gig with John Pointer tonight at Cedar Street in Austin, two drummers so this should be a lot of fun.

Start work on a track for CGT tomorrow.

Markus will be coming over next week with Simone. We will spend a week or two building tracks for her record that Markus is producing. He also gave me news on the delay in our Tuner release (our spiffy art work has caused a few malfunctions at the pressing plant. . .but maybe it was fate. . 11 11. . .11 11. . . 11 11. . .

<<Just got a notice that copies will ship to the distributor next Monday, 11th

of June.>>



Played with Pine Top Perkins last night. . He is about 93 years old and still pumping the blues like a boogie woogie Jelly Roll. Pine Top was the piano man with Muddy Waters , Sonny Boy Williamson and other blues legends.

www.pinetopperkins.com

Got a call to fill in for a Will Taylor strings attached Zeppelin tribute gig at Thredagills this saturday- Oh Boy I get to try and learn 20 Zep tunes in two days.



Congratulations to Markus and Renee, may they live happily ever after.

Wrapping up tracks for P.J. Olsson.

P.J. has an interesting record deal, he is one of the new artist signed by CBS. They will place these new artists songs on CBS TV shows and as digital downloads and if any thing takes off they might press CDs.

Did a couple TU shows with TOOL last week, you can see pics and read about it here: 

blog.myspace.com/index.cfm

and here

blog.myspace.com/index.cfm



Spent the last week recording another record for the Swiss legend Toni Vescoli. Tracking with David Grissom, Roscoe Beck, Mitch Watkins, eginered by Jim Vollentine.

Today i'm finishing up a track in my home studio for Tom Griesgraber with Bert Lams.

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Next up:

May, 12 and 13, 2007 at Modified Arts

E. Roosevelt St. Phoenix, Phoenix, Arizona 85004

33 1/3 PHX: An event designed to promote live improvised music in a world becoming blander from homogenized and canned music. This is magic that can only happen when musicians are in the same room together jamming. The energy created from improvisational music compirises some of the best live recordings of all time, and this event promises to be one of the best Phoenix has ever known. For 33 hours and 20 minutes, a rotating plethora of musicians will perform non-stop improvised music in the heart of the Phoenix arts district. Modified Arts 407 E. Roosevelt St. Phoenix, AZ 85004 602-462-5516

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New Tuner CD 'Pole" is at the pressing plant and awaits the shrink wrap finale.



New TUNER CD 'POLE' coming June 4th.

 

In the meantime the third week of '11-11', with drums added by Ingo Vogelmann is now available at the 'Eleven Versions of 11-11' page at Krimson News!

TUNER will be playing live in Portugal at the Gouveia Art Rock festival, besides some duo tunes Tuner will appear with the California Guitar Trio, Metamorfosi Duo and Isildurs Bane.

www.gaudela.net/gar/schedule.html

A few nights ago I helped celebrate Malford Milligan's birthday party at the Saxon Pub by backing up Malford with Eric Johnson, David Grissom, Phil Brown, Tommy Shannon and many more.

KTU gigs in North America went well and we have been invited back (in 2008). Recording new KTU tracks has begun.